Chinatown turned on a dime when this character arrived. Chinese food that likes to look good. I like the shao bing (sesame flatbread with cumin lamb sirloin, pickled red onions, green pepper, cilantro and salted chilies).

The food truck that could! The truck’s still going at Howe and Robson but the commissary morphed into a very cool tacqueria. Boisterous, communal tables. The chocolate diablo cookies are cruelly scrumptious.

BO LAKSA KING. 2646 East Hastings St., 604-568-4593.

Burma’s rising so time to get acquainted with fermented tea leaf salad (good!) and mohingar. True to the name, there’s very good laksa, too.

A chef from well-known Uli’s in White Rock, another who’s cooked at C, Araxi and Bearfoot Bistro and a master german butcher bring culinary talent to this shop. They’ll make you a fabulous sandwich or charcuterie and salad picnic for the beach with maybe a bacon chocolate something-something for dessert.

Winery. Farm. Artisan store. Whatever. Just know you can get an artisan cheese and charcuterie picnic to eat outside with one of their wines (fortified red with green walnut brandy?) or take for a picnic.

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